I spent a few days in Kraków, Poland for the CALIBRE workshop on Quality, Security and Safety and for KKIO 2005 and I used this opportunity to do some sightseeing. After the workshop on Tuesday, Matthijs den Besten and I wandered around the city for a a few hours, then went back to the hotel for a swim, just in time to go for dinner with the CALIBRE people. We went to a restaurant which served traditional food from the 17th century. It was a really amazing place with animal fur and carpets on the wall, big wooden tables and menus which had nice drawings on them. We had a selection of different food which we shared and it was really great. The following day, as part of KKIO, dinner was served in the Wieliczka salt mine after we went on a tour of it. It's pretty amazing what kind of art you can make out of salt.
On Thursday, I did some more sightseeing, basically walking around the city center and looking at some of the nice attractions. Which turns out to be churches, given that this is Poland. I particularly liked the basilica of the holy trinity but many other sights, such as Wawel castle, were pretty impressive too.